In Libreville on 13th January the minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Mines, Casimir Oyé Mba, received the Russian ambassador to Gabon, Vladimir Tarabrine, to discuss the possibility of new economic and technological partnerships between the two countries.

This meeting allowed them to plan the extension of their partnerships to the mining and energy sectors and to the training of executives in the industrial sector, and to identify incentive measures to be implemented to attract Russian investors to the Gabonese market in the fields of mining and energy.

The representatives of the two countries concurred in acknowledging the considerable potential such cooperation holds for the development of Gabon. “On the Russian side, we are ready to extend this cooperation and we are also willing to extend cooperation in the field of executive training for the needs of Gabonese industries, in particular in the fields of energy and the media”, the Russian Ambassador explained.

The extension of cooperation between the two countries falls within the framework of the policy of development and diversification of the Gabonese economy contained in the Strategic Growth and Poverty Reduction Document drafted by the Gabonese government with the support of the World Bank.

Legabon.org, January 2009